The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-03-05

POINTS ABOUT SUGAR.

he crop of sugar now being crushed
he mills on these Islands is turning
better than was anticipated, and one
".ay very safely come to the conclusion
the years yield, acre tor acre, will
.g fall under last seasons crop. 1t is a
s tier of the utmost Importance to
md planters to obtain the largest pos
e return from their crop, seeing that
yield in other sugar-producing coun-
s has been heavy, and also that beet
ar is coming into competition with
lie sugar at almost every distributing
g.. mt.
This competition, however, has mainly
N from Europe; but movement is on
in the United States for giving
.cial encouragement to the cultivation
beet and its conversion into sugar
0uld it be successful it will have a
y damaging effect upon the planta-
-.-c interests of this country, which de-
end exclusively upon the American
marEet, whatever may be said to the
ests to build up and conserve in other
sir 'tions. The question whether a
ma: het for Hawaiian sugar might not
nave been found elsewhere does not
arise now. Suffice it to say that the only
consuming market opened to US, which
combined the two essential elements of
certainty and profit, was the Pacific
Coast States and Territories through San
Francisco, and the retention OF this mar
ket is the prime object TO be aimed at
While beet sugar is almost exclusively q
European product, we have little appre-
tension upon that score; when it be-
comes an American product on large
scale existing conditions will change ma
terially
Up to the present American beet sugar
has been a commercial failure except at
the Alvarado refinery of the Standard
Company of California, and its opera
tions have been on too small a scale to
affect the market materially. Attention
has been mainly given to experiments
with -jrghum, but as vet without any
substantial results. At the National
sugar Growers Association held at ST.
LOuis February 8th, MIR. F. J. Colman,
Commissioner of Agriculture, stated he
considered that although on the whole
the expectations of a year ago regarding
not been realized, the outlook is favora-
for large production of sugar from
rghum by the adoption of the new pro-
IS of diffusion and saturation. Com
enting on this meeting, the San Fran
SEQ Chronicle" of February 18th says
Iat sorghum molasses has long been
Iade in the South, but it has been found
impossible with the present machinery
make good sugar or syrup of fine quail
from sorghum. There is a great
future waiting for the man with in
genuity to perfect machinery that will
put the sorghum cane on the same level
with the sugar cane of louisiana" The
point of commercial success has been so
nearly reached in this business, however,
that it is fair TO assume it will not now be
abandoned as a hopeless task. With
beet sugar the case is entirely different
and it is primarily with beet sugar, made
on American soil, that we anticipate the
first great check to the cane sugar indus
try of these Islands.
And this brings us to consideration
OF the standing and distribution of Ha
waiian sugar in the United States, for
this doubtless will have considerable in
fluence in shaping opinion for or against
the Treaty. We have advices bearing on
this subject which We consider impor-
tant. The Eastern and Southern REIN
ers have opened an office in Washington
under the management of Mr.. Henry A.
Brown, to oppose the Treaty, and he has
issued pamphlet repeating all the old
lime charges against the Treaty, saying
hat a member OF King Kalakaua's Cab !
let Moreno doubtless, assures him that